Author Archives: Jeff Porten

  • Jesse Spector:
    FINAL: Blackhawks 4 (Hossa, Handzus, Bickell, Frolik), Red Wings 3 (Eaves, Andersson, Bickell). On to Game 7. Penalty shot the difference.

Coincidentally, Blackhawks vs. Red Wings was also the last major battle of the Permian extinction.

  • erika owens:
    Up next week: Uncle Tom’s Cabin with the races of the actors reversed. And then maybe never going to a theater ever again.

Facebook tells me that a college classmate is performing in Lend Me a Tenor. Might help if you need a palate cleansing sorbet.

  • erika owens:
    hmm, i think i need a break, but hope the run goes great.

I just found a review raving about the show. Might have to go see it.

  • erika owens:
    “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” There. Now you don’t have to see “Reasons to Be Happy.”

Remove the quotes from this tweet, and it reads like Fortune Cookies of the Damned.

  • erika owens:
    ha, that’s great. I’m just bummed. I was expecting some gut punching and just left muttering “wtf was that?”

I’m unfamiliar with either play and had to Google to figure out what you were talking about. Were you in NYC?

  • erika owens:
    yeah, passing through. Highly recommend the first. Highly. A whole lot. Enjoyed 2 more hours of it tonight, but had higher hopes

  • erika owens:
    people who make an effort to include other people in conversation are the best kind of people. it does not go unnoticed.

Are you the type who gets left out of conversation? Not the impression I had.

  • erika owens:
    I’m really good at being awkwardly quiet in groups of people I don’t know well. It’s great when people actively include others.

I realized after posting that you might act differently when you’re running the session with an overhead….

I’m a reforming extrovert who tended to talk too much with new people. Learned that getting people to talk is more interesting.

  • erika owens:
    that is sorta the trap I get stuck in now, want to hear about other people and it mostly turns to silence from me. Whoops.

Not a trap unless there’s something you know you *want* to say. Only a problem when you feel left out, not same as being quiet.

The trick is paying attention to whether you’re talking/listening out of habit, or because it’s what you *want* to be doing.

I still have a bad habit of talking because it’s “my turn”, but working on breaking it…